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Is the SEC capable of blushing? Increasingly, there are occasions in which the Securities and Exchange Commission takes positions so inconsistent with the protection of investors and its own history and so deferential to the industry that one has to …
Shuanghui International Holdings Limited (“Shuanghui”) and Smithfield Foods, Inc. (“Smithfield”) announced on Friday that the companies have received notice from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) that its national security review of the proposed acquisition by
The following post is based on a recent Gibson Dunn memo, available here, that was originally published on August 27, 2013.
This post provides a brief summary of a number of recent developments and trends in corporate governance and
The following comes to us from Charles M. Nathan, Partner and Head of Corporate Governance Practice at RLM Finsbury.
Activist investors are currently the darlings of the equity markets and the financial media. Many of the leading activist investors …
Private placements and the due diligence obligations of broker-dealers in such transactions have recently come under increased scrutiny from FINRA as part of a broader trend reflected most notably in the filing requirements for private placements that went into effect
Active Shareholders are the New Normal, Placing a Premium on Management Preparedness, Board Awareness and Ongoing Shareholder Engagement for Public Companies
SUMMARY
The results of the 2013 proxy season and other recent corporate governance developments have demonstrated that boards and
The following comes to us from Public Affairs at Columbia Law School:
John C. Coffee Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, has been asked by Vuk Jeremić, president of the 67th Session …
In my forthcoming article, The Glass Boardroom: The SEC’s Role in Cracking the Door Open so Women May Enter, I expose the lack of compliance among Fortune 50 companies in adhering to the SEC’s main rule relating to diversity …
The following post comes to us from Brent J. Horton, assistant professor at Fordham University Gabelli School of Business.
In my recent article, The Going-Private Freeze-Out: A Unique Danger for Investors in Delaware Non-Corporate Business Associations,[1] I examine …
On July 30, the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) adopted new rules with respect to broker-dealer financial responsibility and custody. The rules came in two separate rulemakings. The first concerns amendments to SEC Rules 15c3-1 and 15c3-3 (and related
The following comes to us from special counsel Assia Damianova and partner Nick Shiren of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in London.
On 17 July 2013, the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a consultation paper (the “Consultation Paper”)1 …
The following is a joint press release from six federal agencies on the revised credit risk retention rule, available here.
Six federal agencies on Wednesday issued a notice revising a proposed rule requiring sponsors of securitization transactions to retain …
Professor David Larcker is Morgan Stanley Director of the Center for Leadership Development and Research at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Brian Tayan is a researcher in the center. They are co-authors of the book A Real Look at …
In the paper, Does the Director Election System Matter? Evidence from Majority Voting, which was recently made publicly available on SSRN, my co-authors (Yonca Ertimur from the University of Colorado at Boulder and David Oesch from the University of …
The SEC’s non-GAAP rules are set forth in Regulation G and in Item 10 of Regulation S-K, with the form of the disclosure driving which provision applies. Regulation G, the less restrictive of the two provisions, applies to all public …
Shareholders have long complained that top executives are overpaid by corporate directors irrespective of their performance. Largely powerless to stop these practices, in 2002, they prevailed upon the U.K. Parliament to adopt legislation requiring public companies to permit their shareholders …
Charles Michael is a partner at Brune & Richard LLP in New York and is the editor of the SDNY Blog, available here.
In an opinion Monday, Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court for the Southern …
The facts surrounding Bernie Madoff’s unprecedented fraud are well-known. Through a Ponzi scheme, he stole untold billions over decades.[2] What is not as well-appreciated is that during the vast majority of this time, he operated solely as a registered …